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Falling asleep quicker
This might sound like a strange thing to ask, but it usually takes me a few hours to get to sleep. This means I oversleep in the morning quite alot, which isn't too good.
I don't drink caffeine after dinner and read a light novel in bed until I feel I'm struggling to stay awake, but my minds still active when I try to sleep. Is there anything I can do to fall asleep quicker? (Not alcohol or any other, legal or not, drugs.)
I don't drink caffeine after dinner and read a light novel in bed until I feel I'm struggling to stay awake, but my minds still active when I try to sleep. Is there anything I can do to fall asleep quicker? (Not alcohol or any other, legal or not, drugs.)
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I listen to music with the lights off lying in bed, slow music is better to drift off to. 
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Reading sometimes isn't a good idea...it stimulates the mind.
Make sure the room is pitch black.
Make sure the room is pitch black.
Agreed, have a ****. Also, just force yourself to get up early. Earlier than you need to, even. If sleeping through an alarm is a problem, get a really loud one (or several) and put them in various places around your room, not next to your bed where you can reach it and turn it off still half asleep then dose off again, places that you'll need to get out of bed to turn it off then just have the willpower not to go back. In short, just try to make sure you're really tired before you try to go to bed. There's no point trying to force yourself to sleep when you're not tired just because you need to be up early the next day.
Mum's are the best alarms.
I have the same problem and use several techniques:
1) Deep breathing to relax you
2) Imagine a house with all the lights on, then imagine a person going round each room and switching the lights out
3) Imaging an orange having the peel removed slowly, in one string. Then imagine it being put back on
All these things are designed to relax you and switch your mind off - that's my issue, that I just can't switch off
1) Deep breathing to relax you
2) Imagine a house with all the lights on, then imagine a person going round each room and switching the lights out
3) Imaging an orange having the peel removed slowly, in one string. Then imagine it being put back on
All these things are designed to relax you and switch your mind off - that's my issue, that I just can't switch off
You could also try imagining boiling water. It's very calming.
I find it helps to meditate (deep breathing, imagery, etc) for 15-20 mins before going to bed.
I find it helps to meditate (deep breathing, imagery, etc) for 15-20 mins before going to bed.
I often have a hot drink before I sleep and that normally makes me feel sleepy. I like herbal teas and find that camomile is really good, or lemon and ginger. If you don't like herbal teas then maybe try hot chocolate or hot ribena or something? Another thing I do if I can't sleep is concentrate on breathing and count. I focus all my attention on it, breathing slowly in on 1 and out on 2 etc. It just helps me stop my mind from whizzing around when I want to sleep.
I try lying there and working up from my feet I will try to tense every single muscle I can, then when you've held it for a couple of seconds you relax and sort of sink back into your pillow a bit more tired.
I read, from some 'sleep expert' or somthing that he recons if you can get to sleep within 20 mins of lying down you should get up and do somthing. It might be somthing to do with making sure you assosciate your bed with being asleep, but I never like to get out of a warm bed to sit in the cold
I read, from some 'sleep expert' or somthing that he recons if you can get to sleep within 20 mins of lying down you should get up and do somthing. It might be somthing to do with making sure you assosciate your bed with being asleep, but I never like to get out of a warm bed to sit in the cold
Its really odd how some people try and get to sleep i can do it straight away :/
I watch something remotely interesting on tv, but set the volume low, and set the tv on an hour's timer. I find I don't shift around as much and breath slower, so I can hear the tv, eyes get knackered starting at it in the dark with it so quiet, and end up drifting off... then the tv will turn itself off after an hour.. that said, I havent tried it in a while, and I really should being I Get 5-6 hours sleep max a night nowadays..
Soppy pop ballads always make me sleepy. Not that I don't like them, they're just so soothing to listen to, so yeah they work pretty well
Well I have the same problem, my mind never switches off. So I only go to bed when I am tired another thing I have noticed is that when I have a workout or hit the gym that day I will fall asleep more quickly, so before I go to sleep I try do some press ups and sit ups until failure.
I watch something on 40D / Youtube / The internet till the end, then restart it, I find the noise helps me sleep, but because ive seen it before, I dont get tempted to watch it, and it doesnt keep me up
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This might sound like a strange thing to ask, but it usually takes me a few hours to get to sleep. This means I oversleep in the morning quite alot, which isn't too good.
I don't drink caffeine after dinner and read a light novel in bed until I feel I'm struggling to stay awake, but my minds still active when I try to sleep. Is there anything I can do to fall asleep quicker? (Not alcohol or any other, legal or not, drugs.)
I don't drink caffeine after dinner and read a light novel in bed until I feel I'm struggling to stay awake, but my minds still active when I try to sleep. Is there anything I can do to fall asleep quicker? (Not alcohol or any other, legal or not, drugs.)
Go to bed later?
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